Go (Away), Blue! ["We Can Do Just Fine With only the Red States"]

National Review ^ | 11/16/04 | Mackubin Thomas Owens

[fredhead]

Yeah, we don't have to do anything. Just make the blue counties keep their own garbage. I remember a barge coming down to NC a few years past from NYC. If we don't let them dispose of it, they will become overrun by their own waste and die of disease. Isn't that simple?

[rdb3]

Let 'em break away. I'll take Chicago and Detroit after we put the rebellion down.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

We'll take New England and then meet you in Ithica!

Wheeeeee!

[wizardoz]

I would crush my enemies, see them driven before me and hear the lamentations of the female impersonators.

You owe me a new keyboard.

[fredhead]

From my studies of American history, New Jersey was a nest of British sympathizers during the Revolution. We don't need New Jersey. Just saw them off and send them out to sea.

[Billthedrill]

It's perfectly possible for a city to secede from its surrounding rural support. Paris tried it in 1870. It worked pretty well for awhile...then it didn't. Marx castigated them for being too timid in only partially stealing such things as bank assets, which would have bought them more time, but sooner or later, as always happens under socialism, the stolen stuff runs out, and so it did.

The thing ended when 30,000 workers and revolutionaries were massacred, and some bad things happened too.

[zeppenwolf]

After all, to paraphrase Thomas Hobbes, principles, no matter how noble, are mere wind without the sword.

That's very good. Anybody have the original?

As far as secession, I nominate myself for Commander In Chief of Hollywood Resistance Team, ("HRT").

I have no military experience per se, but I've played a heck of alot of Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin. Thank you.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The third straight week without even so much as a scrap of red state foodstuffs was the worst, for most unlucky blue state denizens...

:)

[wideawake]

Hey!

[cripplecreek]

Nice to know that we're so easilly tossed overboard isn't it?

[KC_Conspirator]

And I can assure you that the business centers of those blue cities, will want to keep their red state tax cuts.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Gangbangers won't blend in well in, say, Iowa, or West Virginia.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Now, now... you know we're not talking about you guys, for pity's sake.

There'd be a general amnesty program. You (and your loved ones) would be allowed to relocate. NO genuine FReeper would be turned away at the door. :)

[Modernman]

Let them have their blue counties. I live in a red county in a blue state and would not want the few counties that turned this state blue to decide for us red counties.

Hey, the Federal Government did a good job of shooting traitorous Democrats in the War of Southern Rebellion, it can do so again.

[cripplecreek]

I don't plan on relocating. Why should I relocate because 14 of 83 counties vote for a lying liberal idiot?

If there were ever a serious attempt to annex Michigan to Canada I plan to make the Iraqi insurgecy look like a playground scuffle.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Why should I relocate because 14 of 83 counties vote for a lying liberal idiot?

Because we'd want you and yours decently fed. We're just decent that way.

If there were ever a serious attempt to annex Michigan to Canada I plan to make the Iraqi insurgecy look like a playground scuffle.

Having heard my wife's horror stories concerning the place (she was born in Canada, and spent her entire childhood there): I wouldn't blame you one bit -- ! :)

[enviros_kill]

There is nothing in the US Constitution that forbids states from seceding. The intent was a voluntary association of states (federation).

See "Hologram of Liberty" by Boston T. Party-excellent read on how the Constitution was deliberately worded in a way that allowed the leviathan we currently have to materialize. Fascinating read.
http://www.javelinpress.com/hologram_of_liberty.html

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

"What are RATS going to shoot us with, spitballs?
Gangbangers, of course.

Could someone with Photoshop skills please do up a lowrider with the caption, "Blue State Tank"?"



LMMFAO!!!

[AuH2ORepublican]

"If there were ever a serious attempt to annex Michigan to Canada I plan to make the Iraqi insurgecy look like a playground scuffle."

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Hey, I believe you, I've seen Red Dawn. : )

[XRdsRev]

"From my studies of American history, New Jersey was a nest of British sympathizers during the Revolution."

You might want to hit the books a little bit more. New Jersey's population at the time of the American Revolution divided much like the rest of mid-Atlantic region (NJ, Pa, De, Md, Va, NC) about 1/3 of the population were Loyalists, another 1/3 didn't affiliate with either side and the final 1/3 were Patriots.

However, New Jersey's contribution to the cause of the Revolution is second to no other Colony. NJ had more battles, skirmishes and activity than any other state and the region between New York and Philadelphia arguably suffered more than any other locale in the entire US.

New Jersey's militia served with good distinction from 1777 on and were critical in denying the British Army access to the food and forage they so desperately needed. British troops operating in New Jersey were mercilessly attacked whenever they left their secure garrisons. After July 1777, the British were only able to maintain three small posts in the state (Paulus Hook, Sandy Hook, Bulls Ferry) and two of those were attacked.

During the hard winter of 1779-80, Washington himself thanked the people of New Jersey for almost single handedly saving the Main Continental Army from starvation. Even though Washington plead with Congress to get the various states to send food and supplies to his Army, New Jersey was the only state that complied to any large degree.

New Jersey regiments fought in almost every military campaign of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783.